Accreditation: LANTRA
Price: £175 per person
(+VAT), based on a minimum of 12 trainees attending, includes LANTRA training & assessment. (Travel fees may apply.)
Course length: one day
Course objectives: Legislation; Understand your responsibilities under the law and help you become a safe and competent biocide user; Interpret and use product label information; Store, transport, record and dispose of biocides and containers safely; Record information correctly; Identify rats and mice and the typical symptoms of damage caused; Identify the degree and source of an infestation; Plan, implement and monitor an effective control programme for rats and mice; Select and carry out the most appropriate methods of rat and mouse
control; Understand the effect rodent control can have on the environment; Public Health; Site Surveys; Evaluate Control Options; and Control Programmes.
The training will include theory and practical activities during the day
and provide you with an understanding of why it is necessary to control
rodents, the biology and behaviour of rodents and legislation
associated with rodent control. You will understand what information is
required when carrying out a survey and the non-chemical methods
available to control rodents as well as the current rodenticides and
formulations how they work, how to transport them, safe disposal and the
importance of completing documentation.
Trainees will need: A packed lunch, 2 hard-copy passport style photographs.
Please note: maximum of 12 trainees per instructor.